We are an organization dedicated to raising awareness about the history, culture and true lives of Romani people worldwide.
We confront racism and oppression wherever we encounter it.
We try to make connections with all the "isms" that make up western culture.

In 3 steps the exhibition shows selected works of 3 artists dealing with the reality of Romani people in different countries. During its temporal process the exhibition will grow more and more and occupy the 1st floor of the Gasteig as a central point of Munich’s cultural life.
The distorted gypsy image of the social majority is characterized by prejudices, stereotypes and clichés. Romani artists presents themselves increasingly self-confident in public and by doing so they make people obvious how unreal those attributions are. Through their art they reflect on „our“ view while revealing the contradictions in the idea of the „gypsies“ and the „others“.

The artists:
Tamara Moyzes, born in Bratislava and living in Prague, depicts the paradoxes of politics and social reality in her photo installations and videos. The Berlin based photographer Nihad Nino Pušija, himself having been expelled from Sarajevo by war, shows pictures from Romanis that were deported from Germany to Kosovo. Alfred Ullrich grew up in Vienna and lives in the surroundings of Dachau today. Using his graphics and installations he reflects on Romani literature and their living reality in a humorous and poetic way

Papusza, d.i. Bronisława Wajs (1910-1987) is one the most known Romani poets. Using his own as well as Papusza‘s texts Edward Debicki introduces the audience to the poetry and music of the Polish Romani people. The Romani musical theatre TERNO is accompanying the show with music, dance and singing.

The bus trip connects the history with today’s situation of the Sinti and Romani in Munich. It dwells on the discrimination and persecution by the police and public authority starting from the German empire till the early Federal Republic. In conversation with an artist the audience will discover today’s discourse and situation of Romani people. The event will close with a trip to the historical site in Dachau, which was not only a place of tremendous suffering but also manifests the civil rights movement of the Sinti and Romani starting in 1980 by a hunger strike.

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LOLO DIKLO : RrOMANI AGAINST RACISM

Lolo Diklo : Rromani Against Racism is an organization dedicated to providing information about the true situation of the Romani (Gypsies) in the world today. We are committed to confronting racism and oppression wherever it is found.

BACKGROUND

The Romani are a people who are not very well known. We are an ethnic group of people originally from India. We left India and arrived in Europe sometime in the 1300's. There are many theories as to why we left India. This is the work of academics, and we have some. Most Romani are more concerned about daily survival to worry about documentation of our past. We know who we are.

What is known about the Romani is, for the most part, stereotypically based. We are portrayed as romantic, carefree wonderers or child stealers, pick pockets and beggers.

Today the Romani of Europe face the same discrimination they have faced for centuries.